Honest Quotes

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

I depend on my family and friends a lot. I have a group of people I'm always honest and current with. I try to get through pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

I have to be honest, I am a true jeans and t-shirt girl.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

I'm being honest, I say what I think.

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.

Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think that’s hip. She’s promoting knowing yourself, and that’s the best idol.

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.